FILE DOWNLOAD

nalabi

Hi
I am new to PHP and i am still a student. I have a problem on my machine when trying to open php file on the browser It shows FILE DOWNLOAD and it has Open, Save and Cancel option if I choose one the beowser just get closed. I am using windows 7. There is EasyPHP running and MySql.

bradgrafelman

How are you trying to "open [the] php file on the browser" ?

How is PHP integrated with the webserver?

nalabi

I am using browser

nalabi

Yes I am using a browser. Apache server is running.

bradgrafelman

That doesn't answer either of my questions.

How are you accessing that file in your browser - what is the URL you're using?

How was Apache configured to support PHP?

nalabi

I use http://127.0.0.1/filename.php to access the file

nalabi

source: php-5.3-dev(tar.bz2) I used this source to download on php.net and its started on machine

bradgrafelman

Okay, but inside of Apache's httpd.conf configuration file (or perhaps an included .conf file), there should be some modifications that integrate PHP with Apache; otherwise, how will Apache know that .php files are to be handled by the PHP interpreter?

If you're getting file download requests for .php files, then it sounds like Apache wasn't properly configured to pass such requests on to the PHP interpreter. The PHP manual page [man]install.windows.apache2[/man] talks about how to configure Apache to do so.